Benjamin Reis
Biographic Data
| ID | 612379 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Benjamin Reis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Benjamin |
| FAMILY NAME | Reis |
| SIGNATURE | REIS B |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Mark of Slavery
In a 2001 essay, Douglas C. Baynton argued that “disability” is a master trope to justify discrimination based on supposed innate bodily and mental differences associated with social hierarchies: racism and sexism are imputations of naturally occurring differences in physical and mental ability (Douglas C. Baynton, “Disability and the Justification of Inequality in American History,” in The New Disability History, ed. Paul K. Longmore and Lauri U…
Keywords for Disability Studies
Sleeping at Walden Pond
This essay explores Henry David Thoreau's Walden in relation to the history of sleep, considered as a medical, biological, social, and spiritual phenomenon. Attention to Thoreau's striving for "awakening" and "alertness" has veiled his running rhetoric of dormancy: scenes and tropes of sleeping, nodding off, sleepwalking, snoring, dreaming, napping, exhaustion, and catalepsy recur throughout the text, while factory bells, the shrieks of trains, c…
Madness after Virginia Tech
In the wake of the Virginia Tech shootings of 2007, a tendency to view mental illness through the lens of “risk” has been exacerbated on college campuses and beyond. Administrators, counseling centers, law enforcement teams, and policy task forces have encouraged widespread efforts to identify potentially violent students before they act and to intervene with counseling and—in extreme cases—removal from campus. Such procedures and policies have t…
P.T. Barnum, Joice Heth and Antebellum Spectacles of Race
P. T. Barnum, Joice Heth and Antebellum Spectacles of Race Benjamin Reiss (bio) On 25 February 1836, P. T. Barnum orchestrated an event that would launch his career in show business and provide the nascent mass media one of its first great spectacles. 1 Joice Heth, an aged African American woman whom Barnum had exhibited across the Northeast as the 161-year-old former nurse of George Washington, now lay dead on an operating table in New York’s Ci…
The Mark of Slavery
In a 2001 essay, Douglas C. Baynton argued that “disability” is a master trope to justify discrimination based on supposed innate bodily and mental differences associated with social hierarchies: racism and sexism are imputations of naturally occurring differences in physical and mental ability (Douglas C. Baynton, “Disability and the Justification of Inequality in American History,” in The New Disability History, ed. Paul K. Longmore and Lauri U…
Sleeping at Walden Pond
This essay explores Henry David Thoreau's Walden in relation to the history of sleep, considered as a medical, biological, social, and spiritual phenomenon. Attention to Thoreau's striving for "awakening" and "alertness" has veiled his running rhetoric of dormancy: scenes and tropes of sleeping, nodding off, sleepwalking, snoring, dreaming, napping, exhaustion, and catalepsy recur throughout the text, while factory bells, the shrieks of trains, c…
P.T. Barnum, Joice Heth and Antebellum Spectacles of Race
P. T. Barnum, Joice Heth and Antebellum Spectacles of Race Benjamin Reiss (bio) On 25 February 1836, P. T. Barnum orchestrated an event that would launch his career in show business and provide the nascent mass media one of its first great spectacles. 1 Joice Heth, an aged African American woman whom Barnum had exhibited across the Northeast as the 161-year-old former nurse of George Washington, now lay dead on an operating table in New York’s Ci…
P.T. Barnum, Joice Heth and Antebellum Spectacles of Race
P. T. Barnum, Joice Heth and Antebellum Spectacles of Race Benjamin Reiss (bio) On 25 February 1836, P. T. Barnum orchestrated an event that would launch his career in show business and provide the nascent mass media one of its first great spectacles. 1 Joice Heth, an aged African American woman whom Barnum had exhibited across the Northeast as the 161-year-old former nurse of George Washington, now lay dead on an operating table in New York’s Ci…
Madness after Virginia Tech
In the wake of the Virginia Tech shootings of 2007, a tendency to view mental illness through the lens of “risk” has been exacerbated on college campuses and beyond. Administrators, counseling centers, law enforcement teams, and policy task forces have encouraged widespread efforts to identify potentially violent students before they act and to intervene with counseling and—in extreme cases—removal from campus. Such procedures and policies have t…
Sleeping at Walden Pond
This essay explores Henry David Thoreau's Walden in relation to the history of sleep, considered as a medical, biological, social, and spiritual phenomenon. Attention to Thoreau's striving for "awakening" and "alertness" has veiled his running rhetoric of dormancy: scenes and tropes of sleeping, nodding off, sleepwalking, snoring, dreaming, napping, exhaustion, and catalepsy recur throughout the text, while factory bells, the shrieks of trains, c…
Keywords for Disability Studies
The Mark of Slavery
In a 2001 essay, Douglas C. Baynton argued that “disability” is a master trope to justify discrimination based on supposed innate bodily and mental differences associated with social hierarchies: racism and sexism are imputations of naturally occurring differences in physical and mental ability (Douglas C. Baynton, “Disability and the Justification of Inequality in American History,” in The New Disability History, ed. Paul K. Longmore and Lauri U…
Art (4 works) · History (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Political science (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works)